The first volume of adaptations of theatrical plays for a young audience, signed and presented by Giannis Kalatzopoulos, during his long and successful career in "Theater for Children", has been released.

"Responding to the desire of many passionate educators who ask me every year for permission to stage these plays in their schools, I present to the reading audience the series THEATER FOR CHILDREN and... clever adults."

The first volume includes the following plays:

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)

Romeo and Juliet, Like the Dog with the Cat (Shakespeare)

Don Quixote (Cervantes)

Where Will You Burst, Cristobita, You Won't Get Rosita! (Lorca)

"I maintain the belief that through great plays, young children can get to know and love Theater better."

Some of the plays include useful Instructions for staging the play by school and other amateur groups, with directing, scenographic, and costume notes, as well as alternative solutions.

"These adaptations have been successfully performed not only by my own CHILDREN'S STAGE but also by the National Theater, the State Theater of Northern Greece, almost all Municipal Regional Theaters, private theater groups, dozens of amateur groups, elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools throughout the country."

The following books will follow:

Book 2:

1. The Bourgeois Gentleman (Molière)

2. Turandot (Carlo Gozzi)

3. Peer Gynt (Ibsen)

4. Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie)

5. The Solomon Solution (from the Chinese play "The Circle of Chalk" from which Brecht was inspired for his own play).

Book 3:

1. Peace (Aristophanes)

2. Frogs (Aristophanes)

3. Birds, The Land of Birds (Aristophanes)

Book 4:

1. The Crazy-Crazy Journey of Einstein (G. Kalatzopoulos)

2. Dream of an Electronic Night (G. Kalatzopoulos)

3. The Moon Fairy (G. Kalatzopoulos, from a Japanese legend)

4. The Fairytale No One Told (G. Kalatzopoulos, inspired by Vivaldi's Four Seasons).

5. Leaf by Leaf the Cuckoo (G. Kalatzopoulos, from a fairytale from Milos)

6. The Wooden Sword (G. Kalatzopoulos, from a fairytale from the East).